[TenTec] In praise of older technology

[John]

Mike,

Maybe he was afraid that rotation would twist his knobs?

BTW, we ought to get together.  My 2B gets lonely. But she still sounds 
loverly here!

John  /  WA1JG


On 2/22/2014 7:14 PM, Mike Bryce wrote:
> Oh that’s a hoot!
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> Last fall, I had an old Drake TR-3 on the air. Those three 12JB6’s were screaming, plopping out almost 200 watts into the antenna.
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> Long story short. I answered a guy’s CQ on 40 SSB. We exchanged the usual stuff—told me he had a IC7800— and that I was drifting up at 12 cycles. I asked him about his radio.
> He told me it had dual receivers, pan adapters, USB interfaces and a 21 inch monitor. I asked if that thing had RIT.
> He said it did. There were in fact three RIT on each band along with dual watch thingiees.
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> I ask him to turn it on, so he could follow me ‘round until this thing got warm.
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> Kinda got po at me for asking him to do that. Maybe he thought it’s wear his radio out?
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> Mike Bryce, WB8VGE
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> SunLight energy systems
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> On Feb 22, 2014, at 6:48 PM, Ed Purvis <wa4njy at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> I had a Flex owner tell me I was 13 hertz off frequency.  I should have asked him to help me convert that to cycles so I could adjust my radio.
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>> Ed
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